Margherita Datini and her world, 1360-1423
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Crabb, Ann
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- Z EUR 1C 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- huwelijken, moeders, weduwen, huishoudelijke arbeid, gezinnen, boerinnen, vroegmoderne periode, Italië
- Description
- Ann Crabb investigates the social and economic importance of women’s roles as wives and mothers, early modern European views on honor, and the practice of letter writing in Margherita’s world.Margherita’s comments demonstrate her attitudes toward her unhappy marriage and her inability to have children, along with other aspects of her life. Her letters reveal the pride she felt in carrying out her many responsibilities as a wife and, later, a widow: in scribal letter writing, in business, in household management, and in farming. Crabb emphasizes that the role of a wife was a recognized social position, beyond her individual relations with her husband, and provided opportunities beyond what restrictive laws or restrictive views of female honor would suggest.